Camp Counselor Breaks Down After Reuniting Last Survivors With Parents

Following the Texas floods that claimed the lives of 27 of her campers and coworkers, a counsellor at Camp Mystic recounted the tragic scene of parents frantically looking for their kids.

As of Monday afternoon, at least 104 people had been murdered by the Biblical Texas floods around the state, with 75 of the deaths having been found in Kerr County, which has been particularly badly impacted.

On Friday, the Guadalupe River surged and overflowed up to 30 feet beyond its normal water level, killing two courageous Camp Mystic staff members who were attempting to save young girls.

As they continue their urgent search for ten missing campers and one counsellor, authorities are working against the clock.

Holly Kate Hurley, a 19-year-old counsellor at Camp Mystic, remembered the tragic scene that ensued as parents attempted to get back together with their daughters.

“Seeing little girls run to their parents and just hug them and cry, and also just seeing some parents who were looking for their little girls and they weren’t there… But, that’s just a sight I don’t think I’ll ever forget,” she told Fox News.

Hurley said she will never forget the time the water totally overflowed the dam and washed away the camp’s beachfront cottages while campers were still inside, but she is grateful to the Army soldiers that assisted them in leaving.

“I was with my campers in the middle of the night, it was about 1.30 in the morning. And rain just kind of started coming through our windows. I woke my girls up, told them to close the windows and then the power just went out, all the fans turned off, running water didn’t work,” she said.

She added: “In the morning, they gathered all the counselors that were at Cyprus Lake and they told us that two of the cabins with the seven-year-old girls were wiped away and all these girls were missing.”

“And we went back to our cabins and tried to keep up good spirits with these young girls. I think I was just in shock.”

A flash flood watch has been extended by the National Weather Service until 7 p.m. local time for the Texas Hill Country, where an extra 1 to 3 inches of rain is predicted to fall on Monday.

White House authorities have maintained there were no mistakes, but officials have come under fire for failing to notify locals and kid summer camps near the river sooner.

Before becoming a counsellor on staff, Hurley was a frequent camper at Camp Mystic, having gone there since he was 10 years old.

An entire cabin of counsellors and girls from Camp Mystic washed away in the terrible floods in Texas, as depicted in a tragic photo.

The 13 girls and two counsellors were lodging in the Bubble Inn cabin at Camp Mystic, which also housed the Twins cabin and the youngest of the girls, who were between the ages of 8 and 10.

The girls’ escape was especially difficult because the cabins were fewer than 500 feet from the river and therefore drew water from both the Guadalupe River and a neighbouring creek.

On Monday morning, the bodies of nine of the girls and 18-year-old counsellor Chloe Childress were discovered; four campers and counsellor Katherine Ferruzzo are still unaccounted for.

Janie Hunt, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Lainey Landry, Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Winne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Renee Smajstrla, and Mary Stevens are among the people who have been officially declared deceased.

Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, the proprietor and father figure of Camp Mystic, passed away while attempting to save the young girls.

In an effort to find victims, crews are wading into overflowing riverbanks and slogging through debris.

Ty, the father of Joyce Boden, was desperately searching for his daughter when he discovered another dead child.

Ty Badon discovered a young kid, one of the at least 89 individuals killed by the flood, while searching the scene of the carnage for his daughter, age 21.

Joyce’s death was tragically announced on Facebook Monday afternoon by her mother, Kellye Badon.

Saturated areas of central Texas remain at significant risk of further floods, especially with further rain on the horizon.

Survivors claim they were not given any emergency alerts and have referred to the floods as a “pitch black wall of death.”

Why locals and children summer camps along the river were not warned of the extreme weather or instructed to leave earlier has drawn criticism from officials.

The ‘depraved’ Democrats who blame President Donald Trump for the devastating flooding in Texas have come under fire from the White House.

Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, blasted Trump’s detractors for implying that the destruction was caused by his cuts to FEMA and NOAA.

“Unfortunately, in the wake of this once-in-a-generation natural disaster, we have seen many falsehoods pushed by Democrats such as Senator Chuck Schumer and some members of the media,” she said.

“Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it serves no purpose during this time of national mourning.”